5. On 12 December 1480 Peynter, Buk and Nicholl, merchants of Plymouth, and their
factors had been granted a licence to export and import goods in a ship or ships of not
more than 200 tuns for one voyage without payment of duties (P.R.O. Treaty Roll C
76/164, m.7).

6. This shipment was almost certainly made by the factor on his own behalf since
Mawrys, the King's goldsmith, had on 8 April 1481 been granted a licence to export
50,000 'passelades and mesandes' (diseased or damaged lambskins) over the next three
years without payment of custom (P.R.O. Treaty Roll C 76/164, m.14).

7.
S. follows 'these 29 membranes the said William Weston, surveyor, delivered here
by his own hands on 9 November 21 Edward IV and took oath' (see above p. xxvii).